I’ve Been Hacked – Forensic Issues

forensicsWhen you discover that one or more computers in your business has been breached, it is easy to get very excited and try to eliminate your risk by taking systems offline, and having your computer support personnel wipe the hard drive and re-install a fresh operating system and set of applications.  This is the wrong course of action if you were hoping to take legal action against the perpetrators.

Most local police ...

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18
MAY
0

cybersecurity

Cyber Attacker Using Fake “Updates”

updatesCyber criminals are using fake software “updates” to trick company employees into downloading Trojan horse malware to allow the attackers to gain access to the company network.

This is an especially nasty bit of trickery, as we advise our clients repeatedly to keep their software and operating systems updated to maintain the security and integrity of the software.

Once the malware is installed the cyber attackers are able to move around the ...

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11
MAY
0

cybersecurity, malware

Traffic Lights Are Easy To Hack

green lightAccording to a presentation made by Cesar Cerruda, a security researcher and CTO at IOActive Labs, computerized city infrastructure components such as traffic lights and other utilities are vulnerable to cyber attacks.

Remember the scene in the movie “The Italian Job” where “the Napster” took control of the traffic lights in order to give his cohorts a literal green light to escape?  Or the scene in “Live Free and Die ...

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8
MAY
0

cybersecurity

Chinese Rent-A-Hit Man Mobile App Yanked

fistThis one is just kooky enough it almost became a Sunday Funnies posts.

Ever just want to haul of and punch someone?  Well if you lived in China, you could hire a thug to pound your nemesis for you with a convenient Uber-like mobile app.  Evidently this app was meeting some sort of market demand over there, as 50,000 copies were downloaded before the app was pulled from mobile app store in China. ...

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6
MAY
0

General

Microsoft’s New Browser Is Called Edge

edgelogoThe web browser update that was scheduled to be released with the upcoming Windows 10 release, which has been code-named “Spartan” is officially being named “Edge” according to recent information from Redmond.  Internet Explorer 11 will be retained for legacy corporate web application support, but the new Edge browser is supposed to be leaner and quicker than IE, and a ...

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4
MAY
0

Windows 10

New DARPA Project Memex Brings Search to Dark Web

darpalogoThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the defense department group that brought us the ARPAnet, the nascent beginnings of the Internet, in 1969, has moved into the territory of Google, Bing, and Yahoo, and is creating a search tool called Memex.  The problem with the commercial search engines is that they do not catalog the Internet underground known as the Dark Web ...

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1
MAY
0

Computers and Internet

Cybersecurity Pros Train Free at Cybrary

cybraryInformation technology certification has always been a daunting proposition.  The books and study materials are expensive, and classroom training is expensive, and the exams themselves are not cheap either.  Couple these costs with the time it takes to study, prepared, and test, time that can’t be billed to a client, and therefore hits your bottom line.

Finally, some good news for cybersecurity professionals, and those that would like to be: ...

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APR
0

Computers and Internet, cybersecurity, training

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